The Press., 1887-01-20
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 Gentlemen, try pair of the W. E. Han ley $500 shoe warranted, and yau will have no others They are made in Button, Bal and Congress, plain and cap toe, and are for sale only by sign of the big boot, w. E Han ley.
 -Get your Tea at the cash store. I guar antee to suit you in quality at one-third less price than you have been paying elsewhere J. A. Pemberton.
 Nov is the time to buy a pair of Bed Blankets, and A. W. Walkers is the place.
 Sweet Potatoes at Ellis.
 Just received, 200 10 ID pails Pure Leaf Lard at 95 cents per pail, at Ellis,.
 Great bargains in Woolen Goods for the next fifteen days, at Helms. 20j2t
 -Yon will always find the largest stock, the lowest prices and most reliable goods at Hanley's Shoe Store.
 Nice Bananas at Ellis.
 Notwithstanding the combination, Ellis still sells four pounds of crackers for 2Oc.
 Nice Bananas at Ellis.
 Forbes $ Wallace, Springfield, are hay ing great clearance sale of their entire wholesale and retail stock to make room for spring goods. This store has been crowded every day since the commencement of this immense sale. 2w
 Special bargains in Table Linens, Tow els, Crash, Brown and Bleached Cottons at A. w. Walkers.
 Malaga and Catawba Grapes at Ellis
 The celeprated 'sDeerfoot Farm" Pork, Lard, Hams, Pigs Feet, Bacon, Sausages, etc., at Ellis.
 Florida Oranges 25c dog. at the cash store.
 Good Florida Oranges 25c doz., at Ellis.
 STAFFORD.
 Meeting of the Stafford Agricultural Society at the Springs House next Tues day at 2 p. m.
 Thermometer ranged 10 to 15 degrees below yesterday morning.
 The effect of the coal strike has begun to be felt in this place. Local dealers are ordering small lots from New London at considerable advance, and claim to be sell ing some varieties at cost Even If the strike ends soon prices will be higher, ow ing to an increase in water freights and an increased demand, with possibility, if there is very cold weather, of coal not be- ing able to get through the sound. In any event 1t will be some time before the first cargoes can reach us.
 -Hodgson, through Officer Mullen, is worrying the liquor sellers with quite ire quent reputation suits. Thus are difficult ties thrown in the way of the toiler. Such visitations the vigils of the faithful patrol cannot guard agalnst
 A man from Willimantic has opened a grocery store in Dennis building on South street next to B. F. Taylor's, and in connection will keep a supply of bread, etc. supplied by a WiIlimantic bakery.
 Some sleigh rides are being talked up for next week. -....-
 -Adelbert Needham left for the west about fortnight ago, and expects to re- turn with 8 lot of horses early in March.
 Union prayer meeting on Tuesday evening next at 0. H. Grants at o'clock, Stafford Street.
 Probably very few buildings now standing have ever been burdened with such weight upon the roofs as now, par ticuIarly those of not more than average slope The warmth inside the buildings has caused melting of snow at the bot tom, and the water thus started has frozen again at the caves causing continual damming back, and increased solidity of the body. Meanwhile the renewed thaw- ings having no escape have been so | damned as to flow under the shingles un- til many houses have great buttresses of ice on the ciapboards, and much water must have forced its way inside the ceil- ings, wetting walls, and often dripping through ceilings. It will be strange ii much damage is not done to buildings, and large flat roofs must need watching and perhaps snoring up. F. A. B. Medbery, former resident of and well known in this village, father of J. A. Medbery, died at the home of his son Daniel in Bloomfield, on Friday last, from the effects of shock which afflicted him some weeks ago. He was buried in the family lot at New London.
 The Monson Acanemy students and their friends will have their annual sleigh ride to morrow, and the Springs House will be the objective point.
 The enumeration of children of school age in the borough shows ell, against 589 in 1886.
 The successive snow falls have made the sleighing just bnlly-on such roads as get sufficient use to be properly tracked but woe to the pioneer traveller who has to break his way.
 There hasn't been any call for the street sprinkling cart for over month.
 Tt is understood that the two Metho- dist churches in town are each a unit in favor of retaining their respective present pastors, and that the latter are both willing to stay. And the arrangement, if carried out, will be quite satisfactory to every one else.
 -Carelessness in leaving windows open in the water closets in the bank building have caused frozen pipes, work for plum bers, expense to owners of building, and | slight damages to goods in the stores. | Steam pipes are to be put in to prevent l such mishaps in future.
 Stated communication of Ionlc Lodge Friday evening.
 A library for the use of members of St. Edwards parish, has been started by Father Coyle, with purchase of between POO and 300 books, and more are to be added
 The Methodist vestry is being ceiled overhead, and the walls are to be papered. One of the old furnaces has also been re- placed by a new one.
 The following are the returns of births, and deaths ill the town of Staf- ford for 1886, so far as returned to M. 0. Kinney, registrar, at this date: Births, 73-49 males, 29 females; marriages, 36 deaths, A-22 males, 19 females. Great est number of deaths from any one cause, 6, typhoid fever. Report for 1885 Births,